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Editor, Index-Tribune:
I just can’t shake the image of Christopher Stevens being dragged through the streets of Benghazi. A photo taken six days earlier shows a smiling, sandy-haired America, his bright eyes eagerly accepted the enormous challenge as U.S. ambassador to newly-liberated Libya.
On the anniversary of 9/11, Stevens came to the consulate in Benghazi to help evacuate the staff. Benghazi is a staging area for jihadists. The consulate had been under attack five times in as many months.
That night, the consulate was bombarded with assault weapons and rocket-propelled grenades. Stevens and three other Americans were killed. On this day, of all days, why was there not heightened security for personnel? Where were the Marines? Someone recalled that Valerie Jarrett enjoyed tighter taxpayer-funded security while vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard.
What did the Commander-in-Chief know? Marc Thiessen commented in the Washington Post that the president habitually skipped more than half his daily intelligence briefings. There’s no public record of Obama attending even one briefing for the entire week preceding the embassy bombings. It appears he was too busy racking up frequent flyer miles.
June England
Sonoma
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Good grief Ms. England, you will believe anything that is written by the right wing, anything. Your hatred for the president of the United States has blinded you to any semblence of balance. Your unending drivel used to make me angry, now it just makes me feel sorry for you.
Its astonishing that Obama still continues to repeat the orchestrated provocation lie of our enemy as if it were ever true. More curious still, half the country will vote for him as if it did not matter.
Mr. Watson, care to correct the factual inaccuracies of the letter? Cause even the CIA is in CYA or rather COA (Cover Obama's A--) mode now.
Or are four dead Americans, destroyed American property from a coordinated paramilitary assault, and the black flag of Militant Islam hoisted on American soil just minor non-issues?
Mr. Worthington, you missed my point Entirely. Of course what happened in Libya was a tragedy and not a minor issue as you snidely and arrogantly state. My point was how in the hell can someone in Sonoma cavalierly state that the President of the United States does not go to national security briefings. Because some some nutball blogger says so. I don't think so.
And please note that I was raised to have a bit more respect for the President of the United States than to call him by his last name, or call him Hitler, or a socialist. My father, a WW II veteran would never refer to the President with such abject disrespect. And I, as a father of two sons, one soon to be a commissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps, wouldn't either. How about just shutting up for once and awhile.
Mr. Watson, the president lied. I don't respect liars. Or bullies.